Monthly Archives: September 2010
Risotto and procrastination with currants, orange, and almonds.
Time seems to pass quicker all the time, and before I know it, it’s nearly Thanksgiving again, and hockey’s on TV and I need to have my boots re-heeled and somehow I still haven’t done any of the things I’d … Continue reading
Meatless Monday: Creamy white beans with rosemary for breakfast.
Nick is a sleeper. When he was a kid, he had to be shaken awake for Christmas. His alarm goes off five times before he gets up in the morning, and it is a given that he will be late … Continue reading
Filed under cheap, cheese, quick, Recipe, vegetarian
A Clambush at Desolation Sound.
On Friday, Grace, Laraine, Paul, Nick, and I hopped a couple of ferries and headed to Powell River for what shall henceforth and forever be known as The Ultimate Seafood Feast. Grace planned the whole thing (and included handouts), and … Continue reading
Filed under fish & seafood
Coconut chicken corn chowder, and some pictures that do not do it justice.
I have talked about food and its importance as a tool of expressing love and home, but I would be remiss if I forgot to mention in all that idyll that while I most certainly cook because it is the … Continue reading
Stuffing ball soup.
If you’re Canadian, it’s nearly Thanksgiving – it’s less than a month away! And I’ve been quite enjoying the soothing fall flavours that have started to take over the kitchen. Roasted tomatoes, fresh-from-the-ground carrots, and big fat pink, purple, and … Continue reading
Quick “tandoori” halibut.
Tonight we were supposed to go to the Fringe Festival and get culture and hold hands and maybe have a drink on a patio under a heat lamp and get all gross and romantic, but somehow instead when I came … Continue reading
Filed under fish & seafood, quick, Recipe
Garden report: Just imagine excited shrieking and jumping up and down.
This has just been one of those weeks, already, and I know I say that a lot but the contest last weekend made it so my sleep patterns are all wonky and since I have to do regular-person things now, … Continue reading
Filed under vegetables
Roasted tomato pizza.
We’re getting to the best time of the year now. The tomatoes that were so bright and lovely a few weeks ago are now mottled and sweet, and they beg to be roasted low and slow or stewed down for … Continue reading
Filed under bread, cheap, cheese, Recipe, tasty, vegetables, vegetarian
Update: I am not dead.
I am, however, a novelist. Maybe not in the “published author” sense, but since I’ve been sitting in front of my computer for three days doubting all the life choices that led to this and giving myself osteoporosis with Diet … Continue reading
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Three days!
I have spent the better part of the week whining to Nick about how I had no ideas for my contribution to the 3-Day Novel Contest, but this morning – THIS MORNING – with the sun shining and the liquor … Continue reading
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